If you vote in Denver, vote today:
🏃🏽♂️ Your runoff guide (axios.com)
For what it's worth, if you vote in any of the City Council runoff elections in Denver, my heuristic (short-cut) to remember who to vote for is simple: vote for the man. Not because one should reflexively vote for a man over a woman but because this year, all 3 of the female candidates in the runoffs are socialists. I don't mean that as hyperbole. They're REALLY socialists.
And while I don't vote in Denver, if I did then in the mayor's race I'd vote for the woman. Kelly Brough has the most relevant experience, having served as chief of staff to a former mayor (Hickenlooper) and having led the local chamber of commerce, she has more understanding of and concern for the needs of business than Mike Johnston does. I like Mike, but the fact that he's getting the endorsements of the far left and the labor unions tells me what I need to know. That said, if I were a betting man, I'd bet that Johnston wins because Denver is almost Seattle or Portland these days.
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It's the 79th anniversary of D-Day
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Just One Thing: Why your Uber driver has 4.98 stars
Did you ever wonder how your Uber or Lyft driver has 4.98 stars out of 5 on hundreds or even thousands of reviews? I mean, he or she could be great, but even if the driver never got a rating less than a 4, that would mean 996 5-star reviews and four 4-star reviews per thousand reviews. Unlikely, right? There’s a fascinating piece in the Wall Street Journal that talks about how Lyft asks passengers what went wrong if they give a rating of 4, which dissuades riders from giving less than a 5. And some riders just don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings or feel like a bad guy so they always give 5s. I get it, but at some point we all know the ratings are meaningless.
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The lunacy of the Denver School Board
Denver school board split on keeping police in schools - Chalkbeat Colorado
The video below is from the 6/5 School Board meeting, and it includes a Board member saying that "a sense of urgency" and "perfectionism" are both traits of "white supremacy."
You also have the superintendent saying that the overall education system is a system "designed to oppress."
These people will be the death of Denver and maybe literally the death of Denver students
For most of the lunacy, start at around 1:26:00 into the video
Today's Guests
Peggy Little returns to the show. She's Senior Litigation Counsel and the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA). We're going to discuss the SEC's dropping the case against their client Michelle Cochran, and many others, after persecuting and terrorizing these citizens for years, just as it seems they (the SEC) are about to lose in court. Unaccountable overly powerful government agencies are a cancer on a free country. They must be stopped. This story is good news despite the SEC's lies.
Margaret A. Little - New Civil Liberties Alliance (nclalegal.org)
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Steve Strauss is a bestselling author and senior small-business columnist for USA Today. We'll discuss challenges facing, and advice for, small-business owners.
Steve's new venture: Planet Small Business
Steve's Amazon page: Amazon.com: Steven D. Strauss: books, biography, latest update
Steve's most recent book: Your Small Business Boom: Explosive Ideas to Grow Your Business, Make More Money, and Thrive in a Volatile World: Strauss, Steven
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Other Stuff
He seems like a decent human being but I don't see a lane for him. He's too close to Trump for many voters and yet Trump voters don't like him, and he's simply too overtly religious for many suburbanites. I mean, I think he'd be fine as president but I don't really understand the argument for why he is running.
Pence files paperwork to run for president (msn.com)
As for a guy who's more clearly got a lane, there are some interesting, and potentially correct, assumptions by the DeSantis team re the culture war here: 🌽 DeSantis' Iowa plot (axios.com)
But, for now: Trump is beating Republican rivals in their home states | CNN Politics
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Good riddance: Robert Hanssen, FBI agent who spied for the Russians, dies in supermax prison (nbcnews.com)
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The first paragraph is kinda crazy… Microsoft Word - R2207005 Joint Large IOU Testimony (4.7.23).docx (ca.gov)
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I'm not a golf fan but this seems like enormous news in that world: PGA Tour agrees to merge with Saudi-backed rival LIV Golf
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I know that social conservatives won't be happy (and drag show operators will) but a federal district judge in Tennessee got this one right:
Federal Judge Strikes Down Tennessee’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Drag Bill (yahoo.com) (I don’t think it’s primarily a “triumph over hate”.)
Trump-Appointed Judge Strikes Down Tennessee’s Anti-Drag Law (msn.com)
Tennessee anti-drag law struck down by federal judge (usatoday.com) "On Saturday (Attorney General) Skrmetti indicated via a statement that he planned to appeal, and that he still considers the law to be in effect throughout the state's other 94 counties despite it being ruled unconstitutional.”
Here's the actual ruing: 97ca4431-c33d-485c-99df-a63b90efe6f8.pdf (washingtonpost.com)
When it comes to going too far with culture-war legislation, TN is on a roll: Federal judge strikes down Tennessee's transgender bathroom sign law (nbcnews.com)
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This is going to be very interesting when it gets to federal court, which it surely will: Oklahoma Catholic school set to become nation's first religious charter (detroitnews.com)
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It’s Taco Tuesday, but technically only at one taco joint: Taco Tuesday deals: Taco Bell petitions patent office to free trademark (axios.com)
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I think Lauren is likely a slight underdog at this point: Colorado Democratic Party plans coordinated campaign to defeat Rep. Lauren Boebert in next year's election (msn.com)
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What I want to know is: does she believe it?: 19-Year-Old Pregnant ‘Virgin’ Claims She Was Impregnated by ‘Evil Spirit’ (odditycentral.com)
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Ma’am, that’s not funny: Woman attempted to rob bank before taking money out of her own account: Sheriff (abcactionnews.com)
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The corruption of the Biden administration's CDC did almost immeasurable (well, they are measuring it and the results are terrible) harm to our children. And yet there will be no political price to pay for any of these evildoers: Texts reveal exchange between CDC director, teachers union boss before school reopening memo (nypost.com)
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Today's Videos
This is simply awesome...and thanks to the listener who texted the link to me yesterday
Very "Dukes of Hazard", I think. Or very "Smokey and the Bandit". Or something.
What a bald eagle sounds like, at least after a tasty snack
I don't know what's funnier, the behavior of the crow (I think it's a crow rather than a raven but I could be wrong) or the fact that the dude calls it a hawk. I suspect it's actually a trained pet.